Social Media Survey Results


Written by Kelly Robertson
on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Canadian Social Media Survey Results

6S Marketing created the Canadian Social Media Survey to determine how businesses in Canada are using social media marketing for building online communities around their product offerings, and how they are using social media to increase brand authority and visibility online.

The survey produced surprising stats on the use of Social Media by companies in Canada, as well as individuals. Here are the results. We have licensed these graphs under the Creative Commons Attribution License, please use these graphs as you see fit with a link back to this page.

Twitter Use by Age Group
Age Group % Using Twitter
61+ 10%
51 – 61 36%
41 – 50 47%
33 – 40 61%
26 – 32 56%
19 – 25 63%
Social Media Website Popularity
Site % of Users
LinkedIn 38%
FaceBook 69%
MySpace 20%
Twitter 47%
Meetup.com 17%
Orkut 5%
Livejournal 3%
Twitter Use by Age Group
Site % of Users
Del.icio.us 21%
Digg 23%
Ma.gnolia 4%
Technorati 15%
Y! Buzz 3%
Stumbleupon 19%
Reddit 7%
Other 3%
Social Media Website Popularity
Site % of Users
YouTube 38%
Flickr 29%
Metacafe 3%
Last.fm 11%
Vimeo 10%
Do Bloggers Blog Personally or for Work?
Bloggers % of Users
Canadian bloggers who run a personal blog 74%
Canadian bloggers who run a business blog 57%
Canadian bloggers who do both 35%
Blogging System Popularity
Blogging Platform % of Users
Wordpress 63%
Blogger 34%
TypePad 2%
Moveable Type 1%
Livejournal 1%
Drupal 3%
Expression Engine 1%
Other 10%
Job Hunting Online
Employers & Job Seekers % of Users
I received a job offer online 22%
I hired someone online 9%
I have done neither 69%
Work Related Social Website Accounts are Managed by:
Managed by % of Users
Management 18%
I.T. department 4%
Marketing department 28%
Other staff 13%
No work related accounts 37%
Twitter Application Popularity
Application % of Users
BrightKit (HootSuite) 6%
Twhirl 8%
TweetDeck 15%
TwitterBerry 5%
TweetLater 3%
Twitterriffic 8%
Company Reputation Tracking Online
Company Reputation Tracking Online % of Users
Yes, my company tracks what is being said about it online 61%
No, we do not track things like that 39%



Is your company involved in the online conversation? Contact 6S Marketing about their Social Media Marketing services.

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Posted in: Blog on March 18th by Kelly Robertson


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